{"id":18104,"date":"2021-04-30T01:08:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T05:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=18104"},"modified":"2021-04-30T03:15:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T07:15:28","slug":"high-wind-warning-begins-friday-afternoon-with-60mph-gusts-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/04\/high-wind-warning-begins-friday-afternoon-with-60mph-gusts-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"High Wind Warning Begins Friday Afternoon With 60mph Gusts Forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for Ocean County beginning Friday afternoon, advising residents that wind gusts could reach more than 60 m.p.h.<\/p>\n

The warning goes into effect at 2 p.m. Friday and will last through 4 a.m. Saturday morning. According to a statement from the NWS office in Mount Holly, the region will experience sustained northwest winds 25 to 35 m.p.h. with gusts up to 60 m.p.h. or slightly higher expected.<\/p>\n

\u201cDamaging winds will blow down trees and power lines,\u201d the statement said. \u201cWidespread power outages are expected. Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strongest wind gusts \u2013 those in the 60 m.p.h. range \u2013 are most likely to occur from late Friday afternoon through the predawn hours Saturday, the NWS forecast said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople should avoid being outside in forested areas and around trees and branches,\u201d the advisory went on to say. \u201cUse caution if you must drive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the wind, forecasters are predicting a sunny day both Friday and Saturday. Friday\u2019s high will reach 67 degrees and Saturday will see a 62 degree high. The winds are expected to calm down by Sunday, which will be mostly sunny with a high of 72 degrees.<\/p>\n

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The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for Ocean County beginning Friday afternoon, advising residents that wind gusts could reach more than 60 m.p.h. The warning goes into effect at 2 p.m. Friday and will last through 4 a.m. Saturday morning. According to a statement from the NWS office in Mount Holly, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[24,974,182,942],"class_list":["post-18104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shore-environment","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-high-wind-warning","tag-jersey-shore","tag-new-jersey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sunset_american_flag.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4I0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}